When 2025 began, packaging experts agreed that the number one trend in their industry this year would be sustainable ...

Recognising how microplastics find their way into packaging and the consequences they pose is essential for creating ...

One of the market’s leading compostable packaging companies adds its voice to the vision of achieving a sustainable future ...

Manufacturers scramble to meet government's EPR mandate for recycled PET, while EcoEx facilitates buying plastic EPR credit ...

State-level packaging laws are evolving rapidly, often in response to environmental concerns or shifting consumer expectations. These state laws ...

As plastic waste continues to pile up, Ruth Alexander explores how manufacturers, retailers, and designers are rethinking the way our food is packaged.

Plastics have also eased the world’s reliance on older materials, and on the living beings from which many of them came.

A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Achieving near-total plastic circularity is not only feasible, it is the most cost-effective and humane path forward in a ...

Every time I walk down the supermarket aisles, I notice something different about food packaging. From smart labels that tell you when your milk is about to go bad to plant-based containers that break ...

Microplastics have infiltrated virtually every ecosystem—from the ocean depths to the arctic tundra. But in 2024, scientists ...